Arnoglossus holleri Weinfurter, 1952

Agiadi, Konstantina, Koskeridou, Efterpi & Thivaiou, Danae, 2021, At the crossroads: early Miocene marine fishes of the proto-Mediterranean Sea, Fossil Record 24 (2), pp. 233-246 : 240-241

Arnoglossus holleri Weinfurter, 1952

Fig. 4H

1952 Arnoglossus holleri sp. nov. – Weinfurter, pl. 4, fig. 4 1962 Arnoglossus miocenicus sp. nov. – Weiler, fig. 1, 18a– 20

1979 Arnoglossus miocenicus Weiler, 1962 – Steurbaut, pl. 11, figs. 12–14

1980 Arnoglossus sp. – Nolf and Cappetta, pl. 3, figs. 15–16 1981 Arnoglossus sp. – Steurbaut & Jonet, pl. 4, fig. 6

1984 Arnoglossus sp. – Steurbaut, pl. 34, figs. 17–22

1992 Arnoglossus sp. – Radwanska, fig. 158, pl. 38, figs. 1–3 1999 Arnoglossus holleri Weinfurter, 1952 – Schwarzhans, p.170–173, figs. 341–352

2004 Arnoglossus holleri Weinfurter, 1952 – Nolf and Brzobohaty, pl. 11, fig. 15

Material

One otolith from level 11.

Distribution

Miocene of the Styrian Basin ( Weinfurter, 1952), middle Miocene of NW Germany ( Weiler, 1962), lower–middle Miocene of the Aquitanian Basin ( Steurbaut, 1979, 1984), Miocene of Portugal ( Steurbaut and Jonet, 1981), middle Miocene (Badenian) of Poland ( Radwanska, 1992), lower Miocene of northern Italy ( Nolf and Brzobohaty, 2004) and southern France ( Nolf and Cappetta, 1980), and Aquitanian of the MHB.

Remarks

This small otolith is rectangular in shape, with rounded angles. The sulcus is sloping posteroventrally and approximately straight, divided into a long ostium and a rectangular, short cauda. In contrast to the specimen figured by Nolf and Brzobohaty (2004), the otolith found in Felli shows a more regular rectangular shape. Our specimen is quite similar to the modern species Arnoglossus rueppellii (Cocco) , but its inner and outer face have the same convexity, whereas A. rueppellii has a flatter inner face ( Agiadi and Albano, 2020).

Figures

Figure 4. Photographs of the identified otoliths from the Felli section. (A) Lobianchia sp., Felli 11; (B–C) Myripristis verus Steurbaut, (B) Felli 11, (C) Felli 12; (D) Echiodon heinzelini Huyghebaert and Nolf, Felli 11; (E) Apogon moyesi Steurbaut, Felli 11; (F) “Batrachoidida” vigneauxi (Steurbaut), Felli 11; (G) Blennius sp., Felli 11; (H) Arnoglossus holleri Weinfurter, Felli 11; (I) Microchirus latior (Schubert), Felli 11; (J–K) Mullus elongatus Steurbaut, (J) Felli 11, (K) Felli 12; (L) Cepola yrieuensis Steurbaut, Felli 11; (M–N) Pomadasys sp., Felli 11; (O) Pagrus sp., Felli 11. (F), (H), (J), and (K) have been mirrored to facilitate comparison.